In the painting, the qingfeng peaks are stacked and the green water looms. The dancers have sharp eyebrows and high updos. Neatly throwing sleeves, hidden in the painting...
On the evening of January 31, the dance poetry drama "Only This Green" appeared on the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger. With their splendid bodies, the dancers outline the idyllic endless mountains and rivers, and tell the legend of classical Chinese style.
Many netizens swiped the screen and shouted: "Beauty is crying!" It's shocking!
At present, the drama has gone from the Internet to the Offline. At 11:18 on the first day of the Chinese New Year, the Hangzhou Railway Station of "Only This Green" of the Hangzhou Canal Grand Theatre was officially opened. Within 7 minutes of ticketing, the show was sold out.
What is "green"?
According to reports, the dance poetry drama "Only This Green" is jointly produced by the Palace Museum, China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd. and People's Network Co., Ltd., and is edited and directed by Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, the "twin stars" of the Chinese dance world.
The inspiration for the creation of "Only This Green" comes from "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is one of the top ten famous paintings in China, painted by the Northern Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng in half a year at the age of 18. Unlike the ink painting in black and white tones, the painting is named after the mineral pigment painted with litholite green, and the brilliant turquoise tones are intertwined to depict the splendid splendor of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. This is also the source of the "green" in "Only This Green".
It is worth mentioning that in 2017, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was exhibited in the full volume of the exhibition hall on the central axis of the Forbidden City. At that time, it was very sensational, which triggered a boom in queuing and punching cards, and many audiences went to Beijing to watch the exhibition, and even gave birth to a word: the Forbidden City run.
For "Only This Green", Zhou Liya and Han Zhen introduced that the entire dance poetry drama takes the chapters of "exhibition volume, asking for seals, singing silk, searching for stones, practicing brush, quenching ink, and entering paintings" as the outline, telling the story of a young researcher of the Forbidden City who "crossed" back to the Northern Song Dynasty and "peeked" at the painter Wang Ximeng's creation of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" from the perspective of "exhibition volume people".
Han Zhen also said that the biggest difficulty in creation lies in the understanding of traditional culture, "The degree of your understanding of traditional culture is directly proportional to the state of the work." In order to create "Only This Green", the choreographers first studied "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", and then almost read the poetry and paintings of the Song Dynasty, and it took nearly 1 year and 8 months to put "Only This Green" on the stage.
Hangzhou Station tickets, sold out in 7 minutes
In fact, due to time constraints, the spring evening of the Year of the Tiger is only a group dance of "Only This Green".
Zou Wei, deputy director of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, introduced that in the excerpt of the poetry drama, 8 minutes were compressed to 6 minutes, and adapted in combination with the visual effects of the Spring Festival Gala stage, presenting a visual feast for the audience at the same time, allowing the audience to understand the "Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", showing the significance of the work's pursuit of the roots of Chinese civilization.
After watching the dance, many netizens shouted that they wanted to "culturally inflated", and this term also quickly appeared on the hot search.
There are even many audiences who are fascinated by the selection and can't wait to search for the theater's ticket purchase link.
It is reported that 10 hours after the end of the Spring Festival Gala, at 11:18 on the first day of the Chinese New Year, the Hangzhou Station of the Hangzhou Canal Grand Theatre's "Only This Green" was officially opened. Within 7 minutes of ticketing, the show tickets were all sold out!
The hangzhou canal grand theater will sell this time in Hangzhou from September 23-25, 2022.
In fact, since its premiere at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in August last year, the dance poetry drama "Only This Green" has begun the road of "breaking the circle". Relevant data show that "Only This Green" has toured more than 50 times in 18 cities across the country.
When I went to the theater, a ticket was hard to find. Taking Shanghai as an example, the premiere of "Only This Green" ended at the Shanghai Grand Theatre last September, and the original three performances were immediately added to 4, and the 2022 schedule was discussed. This year it will meet the audience again at the Shanghai Grand Theatre.
The national style song and dance is still in the explosive period
According to Interface News, from "Drunken Drum" in the 1990s, to "Thousand Hands Guanyin" and "Pretty Sunset" in the first decade of the new century, to "Dunhuang Feitian", "Crested Ibis" and "Morning Light Song" in the 2010s, CCTV Spring Festival Gala has never lacked national style boutique stage works.
Time has been pushed to these two years, and the National Style Song and Dance Program has improved the production level and brought a more powerful visual experience with technological innovation. XR, VR, CG production and other technologies are integrated with the stage to achieve the interaction between characters, props and virtual scenes. For example, this year's Spring Festival Gala creative dance "Golden Face" was planned and directed by Yu Baimei and choreographed by Yang Liping, using cinematic shooting methods, combined with CG design and production and optical motion capture technology, to achieve a visual transformation from the museum to the ancient Shu kingdom, from modern to the past.
In the past two years, the national style song and dance program has gradually become the trend of the evening. Last year, Henan Satellite TV's Spring Festival Gala became popular with "Tang Palace Night Banquet", and successively launched the "Wonderful Tour" series in festivals such as Qingming, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, and the classical dance works of the underwater dance "Prayer" and "Crane Return" have "gone out of the circle", making netizens call "Henan Satellite TV crazy". A series of national style songs and dances of Henan Satellite TV have entered the process of IP image commercialization. In February last year, "Tang Palace Night Banquet" launched an official joint cultural creation, and IP images such as "Tang Xiaomei" have successively appeared on the stage; In September, the official anime version of the IP image was released; In December, four digital cultural and creative collections were launched. In the second half of the year, henan satellite TV and station B cooperated in the variety show "Dance Millennium", which also won the excellent reputation of Douban 8.8 points.
Henan Satellite TV took the lead, and other evening parties have also been "rolled" on the National Wind Road. During the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, Shaanxi Satellite TV and Hunan Satellite TV combined regional characteristics such as bowls and bowls and orange islands to launch programs such as "Peach Blossom Note" and "Frightening Dreams". A month ago, in the cross-Chinese New Year's Eve, the B station evening party had a stage poetry drama "Only This Green" excerpt, the display of the national style UP master, Sichuan Satellite TV's "National Rhyme New Year Concert" opening show "Across Time and Space to Meet You", the symphony orchestra, electronic music and the restoration of ancient instruments of the Tang Dynasty collided, playing the game music of "Glory of the King", and realizing "Chinese and Western Fighting Music" and "Ancient and Modern Fighting Music".
However, compared with Henan Satellite TV, the market effect of other evening national style song and dance programs is not obvious, and there may be more room for imagination in the future.
Editor of this issue: Wang Tingting